By Liu Yixuan(Ellie) and Lee Wende
Meaning of Protest, from the Cambridge Dictionary.
Something Visible
Metoo Movement
What is Metoo?
What does Metoo do?
(note: all the information comes from the official Metoo website https://metoomvmt.org/about/)
The aim of the Metoo movement?
To fight against sexual violence, to strive for a more equal world.
To help, to encourage, to heal the survivors and make a more inclusive community.
Note: It started with women does not mean that the movement is all about women. Men, boys, LGBT community also suffer from sexual violence. Everyone in the world has a voice to speak out loud and ask for their rights.
How did Metoo change the world?
There were more than 3 million Tweets about the #Metoo, check on the timeline published by Twitter data.
How did Metoo raise people’s awareness?
Global Impact
https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=metoo#page=2
Methods of Protest
Declarations by organizations and institutions
Group or mass petitions
Slogans, caricatures, and symbols
Banners, posters, and displayed communications
Skywriting and earthwriting
Mock awards
Prayer and worship
Protest disrobings
Destruction of own property
Symbolic lights
Rude gestures
Vigils
Singing
Walk-outs
Silence
Renouncing honors
Turning one’s back
Stay-at-home
Total personal noncooperation
Collective disappearance
consumers’ boycott
Withdrawal of bank deposits
Refusal to pay debts or interest
Protest strike
Working-to-rule strike
Reporting “sick” (sick-in)
Boycott of elections
Reluctant and slow compliance
Sitdown
The fast
Sit-in
Nonviolent occupation
Guerrilla theatre
Nonviolent land seizure
Politically motivated counterfeiting
Preclusive purchasing
Alternative markets
Alternative economic institutions
Overloading of administrative systems
Seeking imprisonment
Possible Approach- a figure of a mother, when it was touched, all the lights in the setting goes down, or the diagram showing the population of the world, the light goes down.
Something You Don’t See
Mental Health Awareness
Alarmingly, the study found that millennials aged 18 to 34, and people who were divorced or separated, were more likely to have mood disorders such as major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder.
The modern world has made incredible bounds towards generating social movements to support disenfranchised groups. When thinking of social movements, people tend to conjure the image of visibly alienated groups that have become vocal in order to bring attention to and eventually change the systematic neglect they experience.
The mental health movement (MHM), which has made notable progress over the past 50 years, only receives minimal attention from the larger society. Lipsky (1968: 1146-1147)
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